Chasse v. Banas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, by guaranteeing civilly committed patients the right to adequate and humane treatment, statute had implicitly “waived any claim of sovereign immunity” for a damages action seeking to vindicate the denial of that right
• statutory /waiver of “sovereign” immunity as defense to actions against individual physicians

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).